Business Horizons articles from September 1993

Business Horizons archives from September 1993

Schooling, business, and the new American dream. (the crucial link between quality education and economic vitality)
September 1, 1993... Every generation of Americans seems to have its "education reform movement." Reformers in each epoch frame the problems in slightly different ways than the previous generation. Eventually the members of each current generation discover what...

Old lies, new truths: demographic realities and economics consequences facing America. (how the US work force is changing and why education standards are relevant)
September 1, 1993... The twenty-first century is now less than seven years away. How will America fare in the new century? To answer the questions of tomorrow, we must recognize the erstwhile truths by which we live today. We must understand that the realities of...

Accountability, testing, and schools: toward local responsibility and away from change by mandate. (the problem with current methods used to analyze educational and student achievement)
September 1, 1993... "Quality is the customer's perception of excellence. Quality is what the customer says be needs, not what our tests indicate is satisfactory." (quoted in Peters 1987) We assume that school accountability depends on imposing standardized...

Business partnerships with families. (how business can help to improve educational performance by supporting family involvement in the process)
September 1, 1993... "Families are the quint-essential learning system in any society. They are the crucible on which our attitudes and values are shaped, our aspirations generated, our expectations formed, and our relation to the larger society determined. .... ..

Sowing the seeds of change: the role of business in education.
September 1, 1993... Consider this scenario: a vital ingredient of a company's finished product is in dangerously short supply. This shortage not only has diminished the company's effectiveness, but it is compromising the national economy and our standard of...

Dreaming of the show: rating major-league high schools. (importance of treating every high school student as a future member of the US labor force) (includes mission statement from Connecticut's Regional School District #6)
September 1, 1993... Marilyn Hohmann is the principal of Fairdale High School in Jefferson 24 County, Kentucky. Tim Breslin is superintendent of Regional School District #6 and the former high school principal in Newtown - both districts in Connecticut. Hohmann and...

The spider's web: influences on school performance. (external factors that impact students' behavior, study habits, ability to learn and develop their potential) (includes bibliography)
September 1, 1993... Why won't school performance in the United States improve? For more than a decade, reformers, business executives, and school officials have attempted relatively unsuccessfully to reduce the "risk" the nation faces as a result of its troubled...

A day care consortium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (how one community helped working parents)
September 1, 1993... "In Cedar Rapids, we enjoy a great variety of business-education partnerships," says Sue Pearson, long-time volunteer coordinator for the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Community School District. "But the Five Seasons Day Care consortium is truly one of...

Kids are everybody's business in Hammond, Indiana. (Hammond Triad Partnership program that involves business sponsorship of educational programs and services) (includes bibliography)
September 1, 1993... President Clinton's highly touted economic summit in December 1992 elicited advice and input from all segments of U.S. society on how to accelerate economic recovery and restore and maintain the nation's pre-eminence in global competition....

Partners at Lake Washington. (PALS, or Partners at Lake Washington Schools program that involves corporate employees in public school curricula)
September 1, 1993... Every Wednesday afternoon, Gary, an IBM manager, walks into an alternative high school in Kirkland, Washington. He works individually with a number of students, listening to them struggle with their math problems. Instead of jumping to solve...

Real world partnerships in Tupelo, Mississippi. (business involvement in public schools)
September 1, 1993... The mission of the Tupelo Public Schools is to create, develop, nurture, and reinforce the success of people. To support the fulfillment of this mission, the following belief statements were formulated in our strategic planning process: *...

Open communication. (importance of effective communication systems in corporations; General Electric Co. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. case studies)
September 1, 1993... A great deal of management's current concern for employee productivity and the need to empower people has revolved around the use of teams. No doubt teams have enhanced productivity and employee relations, but one should never assume that teams...

Team building: answering the tough questions. (team management as a way of enhancing corporate competitiveness)
September 1, 1993... Corporate America is realizing that if it is to reassert its competitive zeal, it must motivate and utilize more fully the talent that exists within its corridors. It must embrace new work arrangements that unleash the potential of its...

Deming versus traditional management theorists on goal setting: can both be right? (business quality management advocate, W. Edwards Deming) (Editorial)
September 1, 1993... The 1990s may be remembered in the annals of American business history as the era of the Quality Revolution. Companies faced with increased competition, eroding market share, and reputations for unreliable products are now implementing an...

Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese.
September 1, 1993... The first plain paper copier was introduced in 1959 by Haloid Xerox, then a little known company located in Rochester, New York. Called the 914, it invented an industry and spurred unparalleled growth at Xerox, the name the company took in...

Technology and Work in Germany.
September 1, 1993... If this book is not at the top of the reading list of Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, it certainly should be; and at least a precis should be passed on to that compulsive speed reader, President Clinton. The research reported and discussed in...

The Unbounded Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking.
September 1, 1993... Ian Mitroff, professor of business policy at the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Business, and Harold Linstone, professor emeritus of systems science at Portland State University, are both renowned proponents of social...

The Race Without a Finish Line: America's Quest for Total Quality.
September 1, 1993... Indeed, Total Quality Management, or TQM, is a race without a finish line, as these authors describe. However, for the practitioner who is new to TQM and seeks simple answers, this book may depict the "race" for quality to be more of an...

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution.
September 1, 1993... Reengineering is a way to bring about order of magnitude improvements in the way a corporation operates. The authors define reengineering as "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements...